All co-worker synonyms

noun co-worker

• friend — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
• cohort — A person's cohorts are their friends, supporters, or associates.
• comrade — Your comrades are your friends, especially friends that you share a difficult or dangerous situation with.
• buddy — A buddy is a close friend, usually a male friend of a man.
• assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
• fellow — a man or boy: a fine old fellow; a nice little fellow.
• companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
• ally — A country's ally is another country that has an agreement to support it, especially in war.
• confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
• aide — An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces.
• cousin — Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
• nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
• protector — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• lecturer — a person who lectures.
• professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
• instructor — a person who instructs; teacher.
• acquaintance — An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.
• bride — A bride is a woman who is getting married or who has just got married.
• roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
• schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
• spouse — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
• classmate — Your classmates are students who are in the same class as you at school or college.
• participant — a person or group that participates; partaker.
• wife — a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
• husband — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
• colleague — Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
• partner — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
• friend — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
• associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
• crony — You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as their cronies, especially when you disapprove of them.
• compatriot — Your compatriots are people from your own country.
• sidekick — a close friend.
• auxiliary — An auxiliary is a person who is employed to assist other people in their work. Auxiliaries are often medical workers or members of the armed forces.
• consort — If you say that someone consorts with a particular person or group, you mean that they spend a lot of time with them, and usually that you do not think this is a good thing.
• chum — Your chum is your friend.
• offshoot — a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
• mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
• affiliate — An affiliate is an organization which is officially connected with another, larger organization or is a member of it.
• branch — The branches of a tree are the parts that grow out from its trunk and have leaves, flowers, or fruit growing on them.
• peer — a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• pal — a special air service offered by the U.S. Postal Service for sending parcels from 5 to 30 pounds (2.3 to 13.5 kg) to overseas servicemen: only the regular parcel post rate to the U.S. port of shipment plus $1 is charged. Compare SAM (def 2).
• cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
• playmate — a companion, especially of a child, in play or recreation.
• joiner — a person or thing that joins.
• intimate — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
• teammate — a member of the same team.
• quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
• compeer — a person of equal rank, status, or ability; peer